Off-Campus Access to Electronic Resources
Currently enrolled students, faculty and staff of the University of Tennessee (Knoxville campus) have access to subscription electronic resources, from any computer, connected through any Internet Service Provider.
- If you are working from a computer on the UT (Knoxville) campus, or are connected to the Internet via a UTK ERA account, you will be allowed access to electronic resources via IP recognition - no authentication is required.
- If you are connected to the Internet through an outside service provider, you will be asked to authorize yourself with your NetID and password. When you are authorized as a UTK user, you will be passed through a software package known as EZProxy to the electronic resource, and will have full access to the subscription.
If you have problems:
- Make sure your browser:
- Is set to accept cookies.
- Has Java and Javascript enabled.
- Ask your Internet Service Provider if you are protected by a firewall. Firewalls that block non-standard
ports may restrict your access.
The non-standard ports that are used for UT Libraries resources are:- 4525 (for the catalog - http://cat.lib.utk.edu:4525/)
- 90 and 2050 (for the proxy server - http://proxy.lib.utk.edu:90 and https://proxy.lib.utk.edu:2050)
- 9003 (for our FindText linking services - http://linkserv.lib.utk.edu:9003/sfx)
- 8991 (for our new MetaSearch service - http://metasearch.lib.utk.edu:8991/V)
- For problems with access to electronic resources, send email to eproblems@utk.edu, or contact
Maribeth Manoff (865-974-2876) or Gayle Baker (865-974-3519).
Some additional information about databases:
The database list features icons that indicate access restrictions:
indicates the type of access described above, that is access from anywhere, as long as you
have a UT (Knoxville campus) NetID and password.
indicates databases that are still restricted to on-campus and UTK ERA-connected computers.
means that the database is freely available to
anyone on the World Wide Web.
means that the database is available only on workstations
in the UT (Knoxville campus) libraries.
indicates that the database can
only be accessed from the CD-Rom workstations in the Hodges Library (details can be found in the About screen for that database).